Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Honourable Ify Obinabo has handed over to the Police one Chinyere Ifesinachi for physically abusing her live-in help in Nnewi.
The arrest was made Friday and the case transferred to the State Criminal and Investigative Department of the Anambra Police Command Awka where she will be charged to court.
The abuser, Chinyere Ifesinachi, twenty-five years from Alor but married to an Enugu man after the arrest pleaded with the Commissioner to forgive her as her actions was orchestrated by the devil.
Chinyere who was visibly in tears, affirmed using both cane and pestle to beat the young girl to pulp saying that the reason for beating her was because she threw her child to the ground.
The parents of the child explained to the Commissioner that it was out of pity that the little girl was sent to live with Chinyere because she recently delivered of twins which has made it really difficult for her to cope.
Speaking to the girl, little miss Idinmachukwu, after she was taken to the hospital for medical examination, Hon, Obinabo assured Idinmachukwu that she is safe now and won’t be returning to her guardians house again.
The Women Affairs Commissioner went further to warn that anyone caught abusing any child in Anambra state must face the consequences even as she appreciated everyone who raised alarm and brought her attention to the incident.
Honourable Obinabo praised the Anambra state police command for always partnering with her ministry in making sure that such cases are handled professionally and in record time.
Nigerians in diaspora has paid off the first hospital bill of the child as she is still undergoing medical examinations and treatments to ascertain the extent of damage caused by her abuser.
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